Monday, June 22, 2009

It's about time for another beta update. As emoes guessed in the comments of our last post, we're getting closer and closer to the full launch for all users - though we were surprised to learn that hundreds of thousands of users are already using the new version of channels. Once again, your feedback and bug reports so far have been amazing - you've helped make the new version of channels better, faster, stronger over the course of the beta.

So what's new this week?

Ads - partners, you've been asking for it: You can now have the full range of ads on your channel

Sort controls - sort by most viewed, date added, or highest rated (yes, this was buggy for a few days, but should be fine now)

Ratings stars can now be clicked

Counts for the number of videos in each section (when in "All" view)

When playing a video, the video title now links to the non-channel video watch page as well

And, of course, bug fixes - including one where thumbnails were "pushed down" and had some black borders, rating stars rounding down, and more

And what's still coming?

Ability to reorder your uploads, or your lists of playlists

Making URLs autolink (in both the video description, plus the channel profile area)

Showing the upload date in the video description

More bugfixes (including fixing the scrollbar when ads appear, turning the search box background white within uploads, and making sure "autoplay the next video" only applies when playing a playlist)